2007-12-11 17:52:44 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Business & Finance ➔ Corporations
It's true, here's an excerpt from the article at the link:
Microsoft's first product was a version of the programming language BASIC for the Altair 8800, arguably the world's first personal computer. BASIC, invented by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz in 1964, was someone else's idea. So was the Altair. Gates merely plugged one into the other, cream-cheesed the waiting bagel and came up with a giant hit.
By 1980, IBM had decided to build personal computers and needed a PC operating system. (Computers are born naked; they need operating systems to be presentable.) Mammoth, blue-chip IBM employed thousands of capable software builders, and didn't trust a single one of them; IBM hired Microsoft to build its operating system. Microsoft bought Q-DOS from a company called Seattle Computer Products and retailored it for the PC.
2007-12-11 18:28:17 · answer #1 · answered by Sandy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-11-12 03:40:27 · answer #2 · answered by valentina 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-04-10 05:14:06 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋